Safety brake head for railway cars



C. L. PREDDY May 28,1929.

SAFETY BRAKE HEAD F OR RAILWAY CARS Filed July 8, 1928 Patented Ma28,1929. 1,714,922

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CHARLES L. PB EDDY, OF MEXIA, TEXAS.

SAFETY BRAKE HEAD FOR RAILWAY CABS.

Application filed July 8, 1926. Serial No. 121.196.

My invention relates to improvements in adjacent the lower end of theentrance a locking device on brake heads on all railthereto. way cars toprevent and eliminate the fall- I carry out the feature of my inventioning or dropping of the brake beam incase by installing the lockingdevice A on the the brake shoe key is lost or destroyed, or brake head Hon the brake heads and beams 40 in case the safety chains attached tothe on all railway cars now in use. The locking brake beam shouldbecome, broken or dis' device is installed by connecting same withengaged, and thereby reduce to a minimum. rivet through the brake head Hpermitting the dangers and damages occasioned by reathe brake hanger 'Uto be placed in the son of falling brake beams. I hanger slot E when thelocking device 45 I attain these objects by the mechanism shown byFigure 2 will naturally fall into illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing as place therebyholding the brake hanger sef 11 ,t -wit; vcurely in hanger slot, and the brake hanger Figure 1 is a verticallongitudinal seccannot by any possible means he removed 15 tion throughthe brake head embodying the from the hanger slot, except by hand, incase 50 features of my invention, the brake shoe key P is lost ordestroyed or Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of the lockthe safety chainsattached to the brake beam ing device, 7 shown by T should become brokenor dis- Fig. 3 is an end view thereof. engaged, thus absolutelypreventing the fall- Figure 1 shows the brake head and beam ing of thebrake beam.

in general use on all railway cars; the brake WV hat I claim as myinvention, and desire head designated by the letter H; the brake tosecure by Letters Patent is:

shoe is represented by the letter S; the In combination, a brake headhaving a' brake sho e key is represented by the letter slot therein, ahanger extending into the P; the brake hanger is represented by theslot, and a locking device hinged directly (3 0 letter U; the hangerslot is represented by at the upper end of the entrance to the slot theletter E; the safety locking device is and abutting the inner surface ofthe slot represented by the letter A; and the brake adjacent the lowerend of the entrance and beam is represented by the letter T. The free toswing only inwardly-of the slot and safety locking device is formed witha bore therefore preventing the accidental dis- 65' 0 through which apin extends to pivotally placement of the hanger. I 7 connect the deviceto the brake head. The In testimony whereof I have signed my safetylocking device A is hinged as at O in name to this specification on thisthe 12th the upper end of the slot and is sufficiently, day of June, A.D. 1926.

long to abut the inner surfaceof the slot 'i C. L. FREDDY.

